Baum Guitars Revolt | Outstanding P90 tones, playability and looks for €799?! In-depth Review & Demo

This is the 2026 Baum Revolt: a brand new yet achingly retro-cool take on the classic double cutaway, double P90 electric guitar!

Get it here: https://baumguitars.com/products/revolt-stone-blue

You’ve probably heard of Baum Guitars, but not played one for yourself yet. The Danish builders have been on a steady rise since their 2015 inception, but because they only sell direct through their own website, it’s taken a while for their guitars to make it out into the real world.

But the new Baum Vega Series, of which the €799 Revolt is part, could change that. Alongside the Telecaster-inspired Verve and the SG/Burns-evoking Carve models, the new, slimmed down and stripped back Revolt has been making waves since its launch at the 2026 UK Guitar Show.

It’s not hard to see why. It’s a looker, for a start: the double cutaway design (here finished in a beautiful Stone Blue, but you can also get it in Dark Burst, Deep Burgundy, Moon Silver or Pure Black) is angular and original, and yet familiar at the same time.

The dark rosewood fretboard – crowned with crown inlays – and the dark roasted maple neck, alongside the sweeping, Firebird-esque scratch plate and the delightful, almost cupcake knobs add to the aesthetic elegance.

Meanwhile, the tones come from a pair of Baum’s own Goldsound Ember P90 pickups, and the tune-omatic style bridge and tuners are Baum’s Performer models. The neck looks vintage, but plays modern: you get a 12” fingerboard radius, and a Modern C profile with a “Smooth Satin Silk” finish. The scale length is 25.5”, and you get 22 medium jumbo nickel frets.

To top it off, the Revolt comes in a Baum Original Deluxe Gigbag, which is a thing of beauty, and serious padding. How are they doing this for €799? Well, the Revolt (like the entire Vega Series) is made in Indonesia, and each guitar receives a full and thorough setup at Baum HQ before it gets sent out to its new owner.

This all sounds mighty promising. But how good – and how good value for money – is the Revolt really? Can it match it to something like the Yamaha Revstar Standard P90 model, to which it bears many surface level similarities? It’s time to find out! Here, I put the Revolt through its paces in as many different genres and styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, and some downtuned heavy stuff too!

Let me know what you think of Revolt in the comments!

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Introduction to Baum Guitars and the Revolt
01:23 Specs and info
05:28 Today’s rig and plan

06:02 Clean tone reference chords on all pickup settings
06:21 Clean tone samples (folk, country, pop, indie, blues, funk, etc.)
09:03 Tone control test
10:08 Indie and alt rock tones
13:30 Volume control roll off test
13:53 Classic rock tones (AC/DC, Hendrix, Airbourne, etc.)
16:10 Fuzz tones (garage rock, punk, grunge, etc.)
17:45 Hard rock tones
19:26 Alternative rock tones
20:02 Punk rock tones
20:59 Progressive and modern rock tones
22:07 Metal/chugging/heavy distortion tones (Drop D tuning)

23:32 My thoughts
24:40 First impressions, gig bag, looks
25:21 Weight
25:46 Build quality, hardware and setup
26:30 Playability and neck
27:42 Sounds and pickups
31:22 What other similar guitars are out there?
32:50 My conclusions on the Revolt and why you should buy it
33:27 The one possible setback
34:31 Final thoughts and goodbye

My setup was as follows: I ran the Revolt into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed, Crazy Tube Circuits Heatseeker, JHS Bender Fuzz, and my Revv G3 pedals for overdrive and heavy distortion sounds, alongside my Source Audio Collider for some extra delay and reverb. The amp went from the Red Box AE+ DI out straight into my Zoom H6 recorder. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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